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It's basically the same thing (europe.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/lotrmemes@piefed.social
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[–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It also affects Sam when he's carrying Frodo in his back but Sam is so humble and modest that what the ring offers him he has no interest in.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    it's not mentioned having any effect while he carries Frodo up the mountain, the part where he's tempted is when he's carrying it directly, while Frodo is captured by the orcs in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

    He had feared that he would have barely the strength to lift his master alone, and beyond that he had expected to share in the dreadful dragging weight of the accursed Ring. But it was not so. Whether because Frodo was so worn by his long pains... or because some gift of final strength was given to him, Sam lifted Frodo with no more difficulty than if he was carrying a hobbit-child pig-a-back in some romp on the lawns or hayfields of the Shire.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    This feels like it calls back to the Hobbit in two ways:

    When Gollum réalises he’s lost the ring he fears he can’t hunt anymore nor escape past the ever-guarded goblin gates, he succumbs to that fear and weeps.

    When Bilbo wears it he is able to jump cleanly over Gollum’s head, finding a strength he never would have had, and so easily he never even questions it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    ...and so the ring did see Sam's greed, rosebushes the size of trees....and the ring was so overcome by Sam's loyalty and pureness of heart; for a moment it too wanted a garden. Against the hatred and greed of Sauron, the impurities within the ring thought (if only for a second)...

    ....rosebud ;)

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